What is the EDGE grant? A living tracker (July 2026)

The short answer: Singapore is consolidating its three workhorse business grants — the Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG), the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) and Market Readiness Assistance (MRA) — into a single scheme called EDGE, launching in the second half of 2026. The existing grants stay open until EDGE launches. Detailed rules aren't published yet.

This page is a tracker, not a hot take: every line below is labelled confirmed (official page, fetched and dated) or unconfirmed (reported by third parties, not yet on an official page). We re-sweep the official pages weekly and date every change — because during a grant transition, yesterday's guide is quietly wrong.

Confirmed, as of 11 July 2026 (official sources)

• EDGE consolidates PSG + EDG + MRA. Enterprise Singapore's Budget 2026 page: "EDGE streamlines the Market Readiness Assistance (MRA), Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG), and Enterprise Development Grant (EDG)" into one scheme.
• Timing: 2H2026, with a hard promise about the interim. The official PSG page states: "EDGE launches in 2H2026. Existing grants (EDG, MRA, PSG) remain accessible until launch." Translation: PSG applications submitted now still run under PSG rules.
• PSG got more AI-relevant on its way out. Budget 2026 lists PSG as enhanced — "Expanded to support more digital and AI-enabled solutions, so that every firm, regardless of size, can access tools."
• MRA is enhanced through the transition: from 1 April 2026, SME support up to 70% (until 31 March 2029), and from 2H2026 local non-SMEs get up to 50% — a signal that EDGE's arrival doesn't mean support levels are being quietly cut.
• The adjacent money is dated and real: the SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit closes for claims on 30 November 2026, and the Enterprise Innovation Scheme adds a 400% tax deduction on qualifying AI expenditure (capped S$50,000 per YA) for YA2027–2028 — both official.
• A new "Champions of AI" programme will "back leading companies with the ambition to use AI to transform their businesses comprehensively." Details pending.

Reported but NOT yet confirmed on an official page

Treat the following as consultant-sourced until an official page carries it (we'll move each line up the moment one does):

• EDGE will be activity-based (you apply for an activity — digitalisation, overseas expansion, capability building — rather than picking a scheme).
• EDG gains a dedicated "AI Development Path" for custom AI transformation projects.
• Application flow details, pre-approved solution treatment, and whether PSG's S$30k annual cap concept survives into EDGE.

(Source for these: corporate-services firms' guides published since April 2026 — see sources. Useful for orientation; not yet grant law.)

What this means in practice

If you were planning a PSG purchase: the window is open and officially guaranteed "until launch" — but "launch" has no announced date beyond 2H2026, which started this month. If the numbers already work (run them here, and check the vendor markup first), applying sooner beats gambling on transition timing. Two deadlines are unaffected by EDGE either way: your SFEC credit dies 30 November 2026, and PSG's grant year caps reset 1 April.

If your project is custom (EDG-shaped): same logic — EDG remains accessible until EDGE launches, and its rules are stable ("There are no pre-approved vendors for the EDG").

If you can wait until 2027: you'll likely apply under EDGE with rules nobody outside the government has seen. Waiting is only a strategy if your project genuinely isn't ready — a fuzzy hope that EDGE will be more generous is not evidence. (It could equally arrive with tighter definitions; nobody knows. That's the honest state of play.)

If you're mid-application when EDGE launches: no official transition-handling rules have been published yet. This is the single most important unknown on this page; it's the first thing we'll date-stamp when it lands.

Why we're tracking this so closely

Search data shows owners are already asking transition questions — "psg grant end date" now autocompletes on Google in Singapore. Meanwhile most of the content answering those questions is written by firms selling grant-application services. This tracker is our standing alternative: dated facts, labelled unknowns, and updates the day the schemes actually move.

Don't refresh this page — we'll email you. The moment Enterprise Singapore publishes EDGE details, subscribers to The Red Dot Report get the breakdown in that week's issue: what changed, what it means mid-application, and the new math. That's the entire reason the newsletter exists during a transition year.

FAQ

Is EDGE live yet? No. As of 11 July 2026 the official pages say 2H2026, with existing grants accessible until launch.

Should I rush a PSG application before EDGE? Rush, no. Prioritise, maybe — if your project was already worth doing under current rules. The stacking math (PSG + SFEC before 30 Nov + EIS from YA2027) is in the stacking guide.

Will pre-approved vendor lists survive into EDGE? Unknown. The National AI Impact Programme (March 2026) committed to growing the AI-enabled share of pre-approved solutions, which suggests the curation model continues — but that's inference, and it's labelled as such.

Where should I check primary sources myself? enterprisesg.gov.sg (PSG/EDG/MRA/Budget-2026 pages), gobusiness.gov.sg (application portal), singaporebudget.gov.sg (EIS). Every claim above links to one of them in Sources.

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Changelog

• 11 Jul 2026 — Tracker published. Confirmed: EDGE consolidation + 2H2026 timing + grants-accessible-until-launch; PSG AI expansion; MRA 70%; SFEC 30 Nov deadline; EIS AI 400%/S$50k YA2027–28. Unconfirmed: activity-based structure, AI Development Path, cap treatment, mid-application transition rules.